2021

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Amazon Launches Ethereum for Managed Blockchain

CTOvision

Two years after announcing the general availability of its fully-managed blockchain service, Amazon has extended it with Ethereum support. Using Ethereum on Managed Blockchain, developers can easily instantiate Ethereum nodes without […].

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How to Empower Transformation and Create ROI with Intelligent Automation

Social, Agile and Transformation

CIO and IT leaders have the greatest opportunities to modernize their enterprise platforms, change the culture, and deliver digital business transformations. The secret is out – while first-era digital transformations were driven by improving customer experiences and leading the organization to be more data-driven, all roads on the customer journey map lead to.

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Kaseya Ransomware Attack: What to Know About Supply Chain Security

CTOvision

Despite warnings about the dangers to software supply chains following the cyberespionage campaign that targeted SolarWinds and the company’s customers, organizations in the U.S. and around the world are dealing with the fallout of yet another attack that took advantage of security weaknesses in these IT ecosystems. Read more about the Kaseya ransomware supply chain […].

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Analyze This: CompTIA’s New Data Analytics Certification

Association of Information Technology Professional

Next year, CompTIA will launch a new data analytics certification, CompTIA Data+. Learn about it and how data analytics skills can help advance your career.

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The Ultimate Contact Center Buyers Guide: A Crucial Decision

Harness the True Power of your Contact Center In today’s fast-paced business environment, selecting the right contact center solution is critical for enhancing customer experience, improving operational efficiency, and optimizing costs. This comprehensive guide will walk you through the essential factors to consider when choosing a contact center software that aligns with your business needs.

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5 Ways to Say Thanks to Teams Driving Digital Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

Happy Thanksgiving! I love this time of year. Just being outside to see the leaves and feel the colder, thinner air. Enjoying the warmer days where I am satisfied with a harvest salad, and the colder nights when I can experiment with making a yummy soup. At StarCIO, some of our work with clients and speaking at conferences slow down, and it gives me time to lift my head.

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How to Expand Data Governance with Successful Citizen Data Science

Social, Agile and Transformation

How do you get business leaders to participate in data governance programs? Many business leaders still believe that it's IT's issue to fix all the problems when there are data issues. I provide an answer to this dilemma in a recent episode of 5 Minutes with NYIke (embedded at the end of this post), where I discuss how combining citizen data science with data.

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Harness Your Heritage: Building an IT Future on Past Success

Information Week

(SPONSORED CONTENT) The phrase ‘digital transformation’ is everywhere. While it sounds great in principle, embracing new innovation can mean a digital dilemma.

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Gartner: Top strategic technology trends for 2022

Network World

Digital investments, be they in AI, cloud, security, or engineering, will be among the top technology drivers for 2022, according to Gartner’s annual forecast of what it expects will be leading strategic IT trends. Gartner: IT skills shortage hobbles cloud, edge, automation growth. “It is an overarching drive for organizations to do more with and scale the digital environments they have been rapidly developing during the pandemic,” said David Groombridge , research vice president at Gartner.

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Prepare For AI That Learns To Code Your Enterprise Applications (Part2)

Forrester IT

Bots That Write Code Are Landing On Planet Earth The future of work for AD&D pros will have to change! Today about 70% of the work is all about the development of glue code and wiring things together. From the UI front end, to the backend of apps, as well as in the integration layer […].

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How to test if your Linux server is vulnerable to Log4j

Tech Republic Security

Log4j is a serious vulnerability that has swept across the IT landscape quickly. Here's a single command you can run to test and see if you have any vulnerable packages installed.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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New Microsoft Exchange credential stealing malware could be worse than phishing

Tech Republic Security

While looking for additional Exchange vulnerabilities in the wake of this year's zero-days, Kaspersky found an IIS add-on that harvests credentials from OWA whenever, and wherever, someone logs in.

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Cybersecurity: Increase your protection by using the open-source tool YARA

Tech Republic Security

This won't replace antivirus software, but it can help you detect problems much more efficiently and allows more customization. Here's how to install it on Mac, Windows and Linux.

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How to avoid being a hacker's next target: Don't overshare information on business social media

Tech Republic Security

When using LinkedIn and other social media accounts for professional reasons, there are important factors to consider about securing your personal data. Learn how to protect yourself from a hacker.

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8 advanced threats Kaspersky predicts for 2022

Tech Republic Security

Advanced threats constantly evolve. This year saw multiple examples of advanced persistent threats under the spotlight, allowing us to predict what threats might lead the future.

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Future-Proof IT: Cost-Saving Strategies Every IT Leader Needs in 2025

With IT budgets projected to grow 9.8% in 2025, leaders must invest wisely—not just cut blindly. This whitepaper introduces The Future-Proof IT Cost Optimization Model, a framework to reduce costs while maintaining service quality. Learn how Cloud Efficiency, AI-Powered Workforce Automation, Vendor Optimization, Cybersecurity Resilience, and Unified Communications can drive savings and improve efficiency.

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US government warns of increased ransomware threats during Thanksgiving

Tech Republic Security

Though the feds haven't identified any specific known threats, criminals are prone to strike when key employees are traveling or spending time with family and friends.

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If you're serious about privacy, it's time to use DuckDuckGo as your default Android browser

Tech Republic Security

Third-party app trackers have become a real problem on Android, and DuckDuckGo is doing something about it. Find out why Jack Wallen believes this is the browser you need to use.

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10 ways ransomware attackers pressure you to pay the ransom

Tech Republic Security

Attackers will vow to publicly release the stolen data, try to delete any backups and even deploy DDoS attacks to convince victims to give in to the ransom demands, says Sophos.

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9 key security threats that organizations will face in 2022

Tech Republic Security

Supply chain attacks, misinformation campaigns, mobile malware and larger scale data breaches are just some of the threats to watch for next year, Check Point Software says.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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There's Gold in Digital Onboarding

Information Week

(SPONSORED) Legacy banks need to reconsider their current offerings and processes to keep pace with fintech banking services, which they can do through seamless digital onboarding.

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3 Ways CDOs Drive Successful Industrial Digital Transformation

Information Week

(SPONSORED) The rise of digital executives in the industrial sector is opening new opportunities for digital transformation -- but not without facing some critical hurdles first.

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GoDaddy security breach impacts more than 1 million WordPress users

Tech Republic Security

The hosting company has revealed a security incident that exposed the email addresses and customer numbers of 1.2 million Managed WordPress customers.

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Over 1.5 billion Facebook users' personal data found for sale on hacker forum

Tech Republic Security

Unrelated to other recent problems Facebook has had, this particular batch of data was scraped from profiles, meaning it's publicly available knowledge. That doesn't stop it from being dangerous.

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The 2025 Annual ProcureCon CPO Report

Procurement leaders are at a pivotal moment. With CPOs playing an increasingly strategic role, it’s time to leverage innovation and technology to drive resilience and efficiency. Download The 2025 Annual ProcureCon CPO Report to uncover key insights to thrive in a dynamic procurement landscape. What’s Inside: How CPOs are driving strategic decision-making and technology adoption The top priorities and challenges for procurement in 2025 Why AI, sustainability, and data analytics are essential for

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Hackers reported 21% more vulnerabilities in 2021 than in 2020

Tech Republic Security

HackerOne reports that hackers are reporting more bugs and earning bigger bounties, but is an increase in testing or an increase in software vulnerabilities the cause of the jump?

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Get lifetime VPN security and privacy for just $20 during this Black Friday sale

Tech Republic Security

You will never again need to worry about your anonymity or sensitive personal data online when the best VPN service offers a lifetime of powerful protection.

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VMworld 2021: VMware to pack more security into NSX

Network World

When it comes to protecting data-center-based resources in the highly distributed world, traditional security hardware and software components just aren’t going to cut it. That’s the bottom line for enterprises as they move to distributed digital environments according to Tom Gillis, senior vice president and general manager of VMware’s networking & advanced security business group.

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Are You Hybrid Cloud-ready? 6 Considerations to Help You Get There

Information Week

It should come as no surprise that adopting a hybrid cloud strategy and having a successful implementation of a hybrid cloud environment are two vastly different things.

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The 2025 Recruitment Playbook

The 2025 Recruitment Playbook by Procom is a strategic guide tailored for hiring managers to navigate the evolving talent landscape. Highlighting innovations like AI-driven tools and data analytics, the playbook empowers leaders to streamline processes, enhance candidate experiences , and foster diversity and inclusion. It provides actionable insights for every recruitment stage—from sourcing and screening to onboarding and retention.

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Compromising a government network is so simple, an out-of-the-box, dark web RAT can do it

Tech Republic Security

Commercially-available malware, with minimal modification, is behind attacks against the Indian government, says Cisco's Talos security research group.

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Has Your Business Defined Customer Experience Correctly?

Information Week

Many enterprises believe that their transformation is customer-centric, but Omdia research has found that customer-centric, customer-obsessed, customer-focused are obscure terms that, unless defined clearly, can derail the success of transformation agendas.

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Gartner analyst: 12 technologies to accelerate growth, engineer trust and sculpt change in 2022

Tech Republic Security

CIOs must prioritize the same business imperatives and find the IT force multipliers to enable growth and innovation, according to a Gartner analyst during Gartner's IT Symposium.

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Android malware infected more than 300,000 devices with banking trojans

Tech Republic Security

The initial apps in Google Play were safe, but the creators found a way around the Play Store's protections to install malware on Android users' devices. Here's how it happened and how to stay safe.

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.